On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 17:18 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > i...@pycon.it wrote: > > Registrations are open! [Buy a ticket][6] before April 11th to take part to > > the [community talk voting][7]! > > > > [5]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/call-for-papers > > > > [6]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/registration > > > > [7]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/talk-voting > > Hmm, this introduces a race condition for speakers :-) > > Since you recommended for speakers to register after the talk > voting process, (potential) speakers cannot take part in the > talk voting process, it seems.
The race condition happens if someone wants to benefit from the discounted rate for a speaker *and* take part into the community voting. It could be argued that someone who submitted a talk should not take part into the voting process. In that case, there would be no race condition. Or he/she can decide to pay the full ticket price and take part to the voting process, giving up the discounted rate he would have access to if his/her talk is later accepted. This compromise has worked out pretty well in PyCon Italy[1], but maybe numbers are different in EuroPython. All in all, we are pretty flexible. If you buy a full ticket, do the voting, and later ask for a partial refund, we won't let you down. There is just no streamlined process for this, that's all. [1] In fact, in 2010 about half of the speakers bought the full ticket anyway to support the event. -- Giovanni Bajo :: ra...@develer.com Develer S.r.l. :: http://www.develer.com My Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it Last post: Compile-time Function Execution in D _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2011 - Florence June 19-26 http://ep2011.europython.eu/ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
